MEMBER RECIPE
Caesar Salad from 'scratch' Recipe
By buddharocket
Difficulty: Medium |
Total Time:
12 minutes
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Active Time:
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Makes:
Salad for 4
Few people realize that the Caesar salad was invented in California in the late 1960’s. The story goes that a restaurant owner/surfer was short of food to feed his friends one evening after a day at the beach, so they challenged him to take EVERYTHING out of his fridge and make something good. In my opinion, he succeded.
This is a classic Caesar Salad recipe, and it is EXACTLY as I have made it ‘tableside’ over 5,000 times in restaurants I have worked at.
I’ll do my best to be clear about the recipe here, but if you have any questions, visit my cooking website, www.tixxie.com and hopefully I can help you there. Enjoy!
INGREDIENTS
- Eggs
- Olive Oil
- Anchovies
- Red Wine Vinegar
- Lemons
- Worchestshire sauce
- Parmesan Cheese
- Croutons
- Garlic
- Mustard
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a WOODEN bowl (see tixxie.com to find out why wood is important), grind a couple of anchovies into paste. Add a little tablesalt and pepper, then add 1 tblsp. of fresh garlic. Grind these ingredients together well.
- Add 2 eggs yolks (seperated from the whites) and with a whisk, blend well. Add a tsp of mustard and a few drops of Worschestshire Sauce. Again, mix well.
- Add 1 tsp of Red Wine Vinegar and the juice from 1/2 of a lemon. Whisk well. Now add Olive Oil until the mixture thickens to your desired consistency (usually 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup). Last, mix in 2 tblsp. of Parmesan Cheese.
- Now that the dressing is done, toss in a full head of Romaine lettuce, your choice of croutons, bacon bits if you desire and toss the whole mixture well.
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is this vinagret or creamy if creamy should it not be done in a blender or is it enough to make it creamy by whisking by hand?
why does it have to be romaine? won't other varieties make it ligit?
the romaine lettuce is torn up, or ripped, by hand ...
kosher salt-it's taste-is always better than the stuff poured from the little container....
the parmesan cheese must be parmesan regianno . must !
use cheap anchovies....no need for the pricey white ones....
christopher
peppercorns must be freshly ground !
never ever ever cut the leaves of lettuce with a knife .
this magic is usually...+READ
the romaine lettuce is torn up, or ripped, by hand ...
kosher salt-it's taste-is always better than the stuff poured from the little container....
the parmesan cheese must be parmesan regianno . must !
use cheap anchovies....no need for the pricey white ones....
christopher
peppercorns must be freshly ground !
never ever ever cut the leaves of lettuce with a knife .
this magic is usually performed at the dinner table--yes this salad and it's presentation can be magic !-COLLAPSE